Elevation of Catió, Tombali, Guinea-Bissau

Catió, Tombali, Guinea-Bissau is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Catió's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Ground within 5 km

4 m – 22 m

Mean 8 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 18 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 5

among the towns of Tombali, and 35th of 44 in Guinea-Bissau.

Nearest town

7.8 km to the E, at 12 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Catió

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Catió; the vertical scale is the same on both.

44-16WE28.5 km
West to east: from 8 m at 14 km west to 6 m at 14 km east.
44-16NS28.5 km
North to south: from 19 m at 14 km north to 6 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Catió, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Catió

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mato Farroba 7.8 kmE 12 m (39 ft) −4 m
Caboxanque 14.6 kmE 15 m (49 ft) −1 m
Empada (Quinara) 28.7 kmN 37 m (121 ft) +21 m
Cacine 31.5 kmSE 19 m (62 ft) +3 m

Where Catió is

Latitude 11.2833333, longitude -15.25. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Catió elevation: 16 m (52 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Catió's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 15 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.